team
About the Filmmakers:
David Teague Director / Producer / Director of Photography / Editor
David recently produced and directed the documentary “Intifada NYC” which premiered in competition at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. He has also directed the silent feature “Love Suicides” and in 2006, he edited Cynthia Wade’s “Freeheld,” which won the 2008 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject and the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. His documentary work also includes the forthcoming ”Our House,” featured at the IFP’s Independent Film Week and IFP Labs. David has shot and edited music videos with Flip Productions for artists such as David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Roseanne Cash, and Dolly Parton. His camera and editing work in numerous short films has screened at Cannes, the Berlinale, and the Tribeca Film Festival, among many others. He has also directed two plays with the Coffey Street Playhouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn. In 2001, he founded Flicker NYC, a festival of new Super 8mm films. Along with having taught cinematography and editing at Downtown Community Television, the New School, Brooklyn College and Long Island University, he is the author of two best-selling guides to film editing with Final Cut Pro.
Tracey Izatt Producer
Tracey Izatt has produced and directed a variety of documentaries ranging in subject matter from women’s boxing to development philosophy in Northern India. Her work has screened at numerous festivals worldwide, and on broadcasters like Bravo, TLC, LOGO, Showcase and on the PBS program NOVA.
Richard Marriott Composer
Richard Marriott has been active as a composer, performer, and instrument builder for over thirty years. He has composed extensively for film, television, dance, theater, opera, installations and video games, encompassing styles ranging from the avant garde to the commercial mainstream. He is the founder and artistic director of the Club Foot Orchestra, the premiere ensemble for live music performance with silent films. His new opera, DivideLight, was presented on August 13, 2008 at Montalvo Center of the Arts in Saratoga, California. This eighty minute work, conceived by visual artist Lesley Dill with text by Emily Dickenson, features The Choral Project, a 45 voice choir, three operatic solists and the Del Sol String Quartet. He previously collaborated with David Teague on the silent feature “Love Suicides”.
Ester Wilson Original Artwork
Ester has been drawing since age two, and graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in Georgia, summa cum laude. She won scholarships throughout school for her art, and is currently pursuing a full-time career of drawing and painting. Ester’s first love is her sketchbooks where anything goes, and she has a large online collection of oil paintings, traditional academic drawings, and figurative work. Her most recent projects involve an art book publication, and gallery showings. Visit her website at www.esterwilson.com, and see her Daily Drawings at http://esterwilson.blogspot.com/.